Release of Invalid Pointer or Reference Affecting lua package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.53% (66th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LUA-2319488
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed17 Aug 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 17 Aug 2020

CVE-2020-24371  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-763  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for lua.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Release of Invalid Pointer or Reference lgc.c in Lua 5.4.0 mishandles the interaction between barriers and the sweep phase, leading to a memory access violation involving collectgarbage.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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